(1856-1940), British physicist and Nobel laureate. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the conduction of electricity through gases. He was knighted in 1908.
Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of ...
Thomson and classmates at Cambridge University, 1879. oseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856 near Manchester, England. His father died when "J.J." was only sixteen.
ne hundred years ago, amidst glowing glass tubes and the hum of electricity, the British physicist J.J. Thomson was venturing into the interior of the atom.
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